I denne masteroppgaven har jeg undersøkt muntlig og skriftlig palatalitet hos 29 ungdommer i Vest-Lofoten. Jeg har derfor brukt en kombinasjon av metoder for å samle både muntlige og skriftlige data. Lofotmålet har tradisjonelt palatalitet, og det ene hovedfokuset har vært å undersøke variasjonsmønstrene for variablene /n/, /l/, /d/ og /t/ i talemålet. Her har jeg brukt en muntlig elisiteringsoppgave ...

The acquisition of consonant clusters is determined by several underlying factors, and recent studies demonstrated that input frequency, investigated in isolation, cannot account for the order of acquisition (e.g., Jarosz 2017). The study conducted in this thesis was an empirical test of the theories of phonological acquisition. It investigated the simplification patterns occurring in initial clusters ...

Bi-/multilingualism has been found to act favourably on the cognitive aging (CA) trajectory due to the increased executive functioning demands that dual-language use exerts on the brain leading to contributions to neurocognitive reserve and resilience. There is a gap in the literature on how individual differences in the degree of multilingualism influence this trajectory. Furthermore, other lifestyle ...

Aims and objectives: This thesis investigates the role of the previously acquired languages, Persian and English, in the acquisition of morphosyntax of an artificial language (AL) at the very early stages of third language acquisition (L3A). The main objective of the study is to ask how lexical and syntactic similarities between the L3 and previously acquired languages affect crosslinguistic influence ...

There are innumerable methodologies linked with instructed LT, each of which are based on whatever theoretical SLA rationale a researcher or teacher should fancy at a given time. In line with recent trends regarding learner-focused instruction and emphasis on communication and interaction, there has been a shift away from traditional teaching approaches linked with a structural linguistic syllabus. ...

I læreplanen kommer det tydelig frem hvor viktig det er å verdsette flerspråklighet ved å styrke elevenes identitet som flerspråklig og fremme deres flerspråklige kompetanse. Målet med masteroppgaven er å finne ut hvilke arbeidsmetoder lærere som underviser på samisk kan bruke for å styrke elevenes tospråklighet. For å svare på dette har jeg observert i en tospråklig klasse der elevene har samisk ...

This longitudinal study investigates the choice of referential expressions in English of returnee children. The specific aim of this study is to examine whether there is a correlation between executive functions and choices of referential expressions in returnee children, and how they correlate if there is. Thirty-six Japanese-English speaking returnee bilingual children (returnee children are the ...

Denne masteroppgaven handler Hanna, en tysk-norsk ungdom i Tromsø og hennes flerspråklighet. Problemstillingen handler om hvordan Hanna opplever sin egen flerspråklighet i overgangen fra barneskolen til ungdomsskolen, og ved hjelp av tre forskningsspørsmål, vil oppgaven belyse hvilke språkvalg Hanna tar i en slik overgang, hvordan disse språkvalgene kan si noe om en utvikling av en flerspråklig ...

Durch ein mehrmethodisches exploratives Forschungsprojekt wird versucht herauszufinden, welche Kenntnisse sieben Schüler*innen in der achten und neunten Klasse (DaF-Anfängerniveau) über Metasprache und Grammatik besitzen. Diese Methoden bestehen aus Aktionsforschung mit schriftlichen Interviews mit den Schüler*innen, intensivierter Grammatikunterricht als Intervention gefolgt von einer zweiten Runde ...

Aims and objectives: This thesis investigates cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in child third language (L3) acquisition. The main objectives are to find the source of CLI, whether it is L1, L2, or both, and to find out whether CLI occurs on a property-by-property basis or as a wholesale phenomenon. Methodology: Persian-Norwegian heritage bilinguals acquiring L3 English are compared to L2 English ...